Some Southern Baptist soldiers succumb to illnesses early in the war, leaving the battlefield behind and returning to the home front. Such is the case of Rufus Wiley Phillips, a graduate of Georgia Baptists’ Mercer University. Weeks prior, Phillips, a Junior 2nd Lieutenant in a Lowndes County (GA) unit, was discharged from Confederate service in…
Today at the Grove Hill Baptist Church in Alabama, in a formal ceremony the flag of the 24th Alabama Infantry (Co. E. Dickinson Guards) is presented to the company. Confederate flag presentation ceremonies held in churches, Baptist and otherwise, are not unusual, as many white southern Christians are patriotic Confederates, while belief in the Confederacy…
The Chattahoochee Baptist Association in north Georgia meets this weekend. The war is on the minds of delegates, who craft and affirm by vote a special report on “State and Country” that reads: “Whereas, Abraham Lincoln is endeavoring to subjugate the Southern states contrary to the Constitution which he has taken an oath to carry…